By Shanna Hanbury Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, ...

:: "This type of event has been occurring throughout the seven provinces of our region of Amazonas. The fires have affected about 53,000 hectares (130,965 acres) so far, but we still need to quantify ...

MIAMI, FL, Dec. 14, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amazon Hemp Ltd. (www.azhempusa.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazonas Florestal Ltd. (www.azflusa.com) (OTC Pink: AZFL), a natural resources company ...

In Colombia, Vélez noted, some 43 oil blocks and 286 mining requests had currently not yet broken ground in various parts of ...

Credit: Joedi Porto/Paulo Wilker/Antonio Humberto/State Secretariat for Animal Protection/Cover Images A jaguar rescued from the middle of the Rio Negro after being shot in the head in October has ...

Thick smoke has enveloped extensive areas of the Brazilian Amazon on Thursday as the region grapples with a surge in wildfires and a historic drought. In Manaus, a city of 2 million, air quality ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Rivers in the Amazon rainforest have dropped to record low levels as one of the region’s worst ever droughts ...

Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of the Abufari Biological Reserve in Tapaua, Amazonas state, as ...

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a pregnant woman needs help. Her baby is about to come, and a drought has parched the rivers that connect her community to the nearest hospital. Enter Tabita dos Santos ...

Brazilian photographer Raphael Alves has been covering the COVID-19 pandemic in his home state of Amazonas since their first lockdown in March 2020. Through his photography, Alves highlights how the ...

Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of ...

Jaguar rescued after being shot in the head released back into the Amazon rainforest. A jaguar rescued from the middle of the ...